Shoe-fitting display-stool.



C. C. SCHLAX.

SHOE FITTING DISPLAY STOOL.

APPLICATION FILED APR. a. 19:5.

1,185,724. PatentediJune 6,1916.

I gain/Er CHARLES C. SCHLAX, or KANSAS CITY, ivrrssounr.

SHOE-FITTING DrsrLAY-sroon Specification of Letters Patent.

Application .filed Apri1'8, 1915. Serial No. 20,083.

To all whom it may concern 'Be it known that I, CHARLES C. SonLAx, a citizen of the United States, residing at KansasCity, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Fitting Display-Stools, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shoe fitting display stools andhas for its object to produce a device of this character for displaying attractively samples of shoe polish, shoe laces and other goods or wares whereby to suggest to or remind a person having shoes fitted on such stools that such goods or Wares are on sale in the store where the display stool is used.

Another object is to produce means for illuminating the display and means wh'ere- Figure 1, is a perspective view of a shoe fitting stool embodying my invention. Fig. 2, is a central vertical longitudlnal section of the stool. Fig. 3, is a transverse section of the stool. Fig. 4C, is a diagram of the electric connections.

In the said drawing, 1 indicates the top, 2 the sides, 3 the ends and 4 the legs of a stool, it being understood, however, that the special construction of the body of the stool may be varied without affecting the invention.

5 is the customary inclined rest upon which ones foot is placed during the shoe fitting operation, and said rest is provided with a window 6-preferably glass-through which objects or advertisements located within a chamber 7 may be viewed. The chamber is preferably formed by said w1ndow, one of the end walls of the body 'of the stool, extensions of the side walls, and a cross piece or bottom 8, the extensions of the sides sup-porting the foot rest in the position shown, and to give access to said chamber, the foot rest is hinged at its upper. end'at 9 to the body of the stool. To secure the foot rest in closed position, any suitable means may be employed, a simple connection being Patented June (5,1916;

hooks lOpivotedto the extensions ofthe sides 2 and eyes 11 secured to the underside of the foot rest and adapted for engage ment by said hooks, as shown clearly in For artificially illuminating the, chamber 7 so that the contents thereof may be readily seen, a small incandescent lamp 12 is secured 'to the cross piece or bottom of-the chamber, said lamp being in circuit with a wire 13',

electrically connecwd at its opposite ends with a contact 141 and a spring contact plate 15. A' contact 16' is adapted for engagement V by contact. plate 15 when the latter is depressed by a foot resting on the foot rest,

and-said contact 16 is connected by a wire 17 to a contact 18. The plate 15 is preferablysecured uponthe front or upper side of the foot. rest 5 and the contact 16 is fastened to said 'foot're'st. --T he contacts 14 and .18 are secured in the end of the body of the stool, which forms one of the walls of the chamber 7 and engaging said contacts 14' and 18 with a yielding pressure are the spring terminals 19 and 20 of a dry battery 21 which underlies the top of the body of the stool between the side and end walls of the latter, and to detachably support said battery, it is slipped through a U-shaped keeper 22, depending from the top 1, the keeper having a rearwardly projecting spring arm 23 terminatingin a tooth 2 1 and a downwardly extending lip 25. The arrangement is such that the battery can be slipped forwardly over the spring catch constituted by the parts 23 to 25 inclusive and through the keeper until the terminals 19 and 20 bear against the contacts 14 and 18, the catch springing upward as such adjustment of the battery is effected to hold the same in the position described.

In practice the foot rest, with the exception of its window, will preferably be covered with a suitable wear fabric, such as corrugated rubber, not shown, to preventthe and contact 16, in order to not only conserve the, power of the battery, but because it is desirable to illuminate 'the chamber only when a person having a shoe fitted places his foot upon the foot rest, as through the flashing of the light at such time, his at tention will be attracted to the contents of the chamber.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produceda shoe fitting stool embodying the features of advantage enumerated as desirable and which is obviously susceptible of modification in minor particulars without departing from the principle and scope or sacrificing any of the advantages of the app-ended claims.

I claim 1. A shoe fitting stool having a foot rest, a chamber below the same, and a window through which the interior of the chamber may be viewed, in combination with an electric lamp arranged to illuminate the interior of the chamber, a suitable source of electric energy in circuit with said lamp, and a pair of normally separated parts in circuit with the lamp and battery, one of said parts being'located on the foot rest so that pressure applied on the foot rest shall establish an electrical connection with the other of said parts and thus complete the circuit through said lamp. i

2. A shoe fitting stool provided with an inclined foot rest having a Window and with a chamber back of said window, normally separated contacts mounted on the foot rest, a

a lamp always connected with one of said contacts, a pair of contacts, one of said pair being connected to the lamp and the other to thecontact carried by the foot rest which is .not connected with the lamp, and a rem0vcontact for engagement by said contact plate when depressed, a dry battery detachably supported at the underside of the top of the stool, and electric connections between the battery, the lamp, said contact and said contact plate, for completing a circuit through the lamp when said contact and contact plate are in engagement.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES c. SCHLAX. WVitnesses i H. O. RODGERS, G. Y. THonPE,

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the fGomn lssmner of Barents,

' Washington, I). 0. 

